Activity 1: brainstorming about the adjective puritan
Style
Religion
Church
Puritan
Predestination
Protestant
Persecution
Fundamentalism
The student’s associations were of two kinds. Some associations send back to their history motion, others to everyday language
Activity 2: reading activity, reading of an article;
Objective: find out about puritan’s values;
Step 1: general comprehension
Title analysis: title communicates that in contemporary USA there are some values have a hold on;
Step 2: identify main information. A new study finds the value system of the early colonists, still has a hold on Americans’
psyches;
Identify additional information: it tells about the main puritan values, they are hard work, conservative sexual behaviour and
spiritual salvation;
Identify source of information: a new study;
Curiosity raised by heading and subheading:
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Finding out about the study;
How do puritan values influence American?s psyche.
Activity 3: general comprehension reading for the gist.